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Remove never implemented sbrk and sstk syscalls
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Authored by brooks on Dec 1 2023, 9:45 PM.
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Summary

Both system calls were stubs returning EOPNOTSUPP and libc did not
provide _ or __sys_ prefixed symbols. The actual implementation of
sbrk(2) is on top of the undocumented break(2) system call.

Technically this is a change in ABI, but no non-contrived program ever
called these syscalls.

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